 Has anyone made a DMs-only fediverse client? Like something that looks more or less like iMessage or Signal but you address people via their fediverse handles and it handles DMs as first class (and only-class) content? Has anyone made a DMs-only fediverse *server*? Like if I want to join fedi but only to direct message people and be in group chats I could join a server and it would have a nice client view like the one in the previous paragraph? Neat, @greymatter ported my old school hip hop flyers Twitter bot to @oldschoolflyers !! Love to see free culture get spread around  @darius when I started reading this I thought it was going to be about you importing a greymatter blog born too late to do something you could only really do before you were born, born too soon to do something we speculate may be possible in the distant future past your estimated lifespan
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 I'm still hopeful that this whole "dying of the passage of time" won't be a thing soon-ish because all that ongoing longevity research will bear fruit sooner or later. Why now? Because now we're at the point when we've made enough progress in other areas that we can now build tools that allow reverse engineering biological systems like ourselves. So I speculate that we were born at just the right time. I think it would be quite humorous if Ernest, instead of being frightened into a stupor, were instead frightened into a state of extreme erudition and lucidity. My two cents. Thanks for reading.
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@darius It seems completely in keeping with the style that he'd suffer a head trauma and suddenly become a college professor, or brain surgeon. The plot would revolve around how being smart made him lose the essence of being Ernest, and all of his former friends would hate his new personality. Having written that out, it feels like they must have made that movie (or maybe I'm just remembering the doppelganger plot of Ernest Goes To Jail) Absolutely wild to me that there is a book called "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck" where the censored word seems to imply the author does, in fact, extremely give a fuck especially about their relationship to their publisher and to their book's ability to be carried in stores
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@darius maybe a better title should have been "The Subtle Art of Giving a Duck" lol  The great clown Pagliacci and his son get in a car crash. It's terrible, Pagliacci dies instantly but the son is taken to the hospital. He is about to be operated on when the surgeon says, "I cannot operate on this person -- I am Pagliacci!"
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@darius as anyone that actually read Mary Shelley’s work knows, Pagliacci is the name of the _clown car_. The driver has no name, or is simply referred to as Pagliacci’s driver. It is correct that a clown car cannot perform surgery, as it is lacking hands.
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 @darius oh no, I guess I should cancel this order for a Large Lemon Collider I just bought  It seems that US Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and I are in agreement -- I have long claimed that the output of a bot is a speech act by its creator. If my bots say something shitty, that is on me. I think the creator of an AI should be liable for its outputs. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/01/ai-chatbots-may-have-liability-problem/
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@darius @irwin Yet the output of a generative ML model isn’t copyrightable. It seems like, if this becomes precedent, holding a bot creator who uses generative tech to create the bot output is a wedge that could be used to pressure copyright for generative tech. Which might not be desirable. Unless it’s a derivative work and the author owes royalties to holders of copyright on the training corpus?  
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  @darius what a jaw dropping 50 year memorial, thanks for sharing! I forgot what an impression it made on me in my 20s--it would be fun to reread it now. At work today I removed the `react-color` color picker widget library from our web app, which is 130kb of JS minified! You know what you can use instead of this in many cases? <input type="color"> It's a thing! https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/color
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@darius We could possibly improve this situation by empowering the community to educate new developers. I tried something: https://github.com/casesandberg/react-color/issues/882  @darius at work today I removed React and saved myself from having migraines the rest of the year Next episode of JoJo's Bizarre Explainer is out, covering the first two parts of the Steel Ball Run arc "A Silent Way", chapters 40 and 41! We discuss being stuck in a system where you don't even know who the real enemy is because you are too concerned with your own survival, and also there is a song about cheese. Idea: do Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight" at karaoke ... but make it DJ Screw's famous remix @darius Thank you for that - I've gotten to hear a few DJ Screw tracks because I'm married to a Houstonian. I now want to make a mix tape anchored by this track and by the Chipmunks at 16rpm doing Blondie's "Call Me": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU-MYe0SL9Q  @darius you can't karaoke over this one but it's.. something https://soundcloud.com/josephprein/in-the-air-tonight-drum-fill-for-10-hours-at-999-100-and-1001-speed
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@darius One or two firms in the marketing side of the business have had some solid success with evidence-based detection of bot networks, keeping their heads slightly above water against the daily code changes written specifically to counter their detection tools. Platform and publisher sides of the business have been reluctant to use them on content because of expense. Not an easy problem to solve but industry can do much better. "Coca-Cola Gets Marketing Makeover with OpenAI and Bain & Co’s Partnership" wow cool news These days my go-to example of "you cannot bet on having access to better technology as time progresses" is "I used to have an app on my phone that could predict the next hour of weather with startling accuracy and that is no longer an option" (I am talking about Dark Sky) Edited to add: I only want to hear suggestions for services/sites/apps if they offer the same ~10min interval microforecasts for the upcoming hour that Dark Sky used to, because that is the thing I am lamenting
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New episode of JoJo's Bizarre Explainer just dropped over the weekend! We talk about Steel Ball Run chapters 38 and 39, and we confirm that stand users who wear their stand as clothing are probably just running around naked as far as most people can see. |
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@darius @liaizon This sounds like @supapp?
@darius @slims It’s called email. No need to reindent the wheel
@darius I read this as Dungeon Maters only.